Ralph R. Swick wrote:
> At 12:56 AM 11/11/2003 +0000, Guus Schreiber wrote:
>
>> http://www.cs.vu.nl/~guus/public/bp-charter.html
>>
>>We welcome any comments you might have on this draft
>
>
> I propose that the Best Practices WG be the formal home for the
> RDF in XHTML task force [1]. That task force has been chartered
> previously under the Semantic Web Coordination Group. It has
> been making steady progress toward its mission of recommending
> (small 'r') a way to proceed to "achieve a common, widely accepted
> way of representing RDF metadata within an XHMTL document." [2].
>
> The "embedding" task force has been proceeding more slowly than
> expected and would, I believe, benefit from more visibility. Conversely,
> making this task force part of the Best Practices WG charter would
> set a precedent for the type of problem that I hope this WG should be
> tackling; practical problems faced by real applications of W3C
> Semantic Web technologies. In the case of RDF in XHTML, the
> issue cuts across more than one W3C Activity and requires the
> Semantic Web community to work with others to find a mutually
> acceptable solution.
>
> The draft BPWG charter [3] has a bullet under the second focus to
> "setup and maintain a repository of guidelines for ... how to combine
> RDF/OWL with XML/XHTML". [4]
>
> I propose that this bullet be made more explicit and be called out
> as a primary deliverable for this focus area (perhaps even for the
> WG as a whole. Specifically, change the first paragraph under
> Focus 2: FAQs and how-to-do-it guidelines to:
>
> The goal of this focus area is to provide support for practical issues
> related to ontology engineering and use for the semantic web. The
> BPWG will be the sponsoring group for the RDF in XHTML Task Force [1],
> currently chartered under the Semantic Web Coordination Group. The
> BPWG will, in conjunction with the HTML WG, deliver per [5] a WG Note
> proposing a way of representing RDF metadata within an XHMTL document.
>
> Other Working Group Notes may be developed from topics brought by WG
> participants. The BPWG will also consider using Wiki techniques to
> create a repository of guidelines. Additional areas for guideline
> development include:
>
> . constructing ontologies, covering typical modeling problems such as
> defaults, part-of, .... These guidelines will take the form of
> ontology patterns. As an example, see Chris Welty's part-whole
> pattern.
>
> . ontology mapping: how to use multiple heterogeneous ontologies in an
> interoperable way.
>
> . ontology integration/unification vs. mapping (the latter is usually
> preferred)
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2003/08/rdf-in-xhtml-charter
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2003/08/rdf-in-xhtml-charter#_Mission
> [3] http://www.cs.vu.nl/~guus/public/bp-charter.html
> [4] http://www.cs.vu.nl/~guus/public/bp-charter.html#focus2
> [5] http://www.w3.org/2003/03/rdf-in-xml.html
Ralph,
Thanks for these suggestions. These have been incorporated, with a few
editorial modifications, in the new version of the draft charter, see:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~guus/public/bp-charter.html
Guus
>
> -Ralph
>
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